Launch TalkTV

[AaronTV]

Not a great idea if the loyal listeners of the station formerly known as talkRADIO have to listen to it. 

I’m gutted to see TV Live Forum is finishing, but not gutted to predict Rupert Murdoch will pull the plug on this channel between Xmas and the end of March 2023. I hope we all have somewhere to discuss it!

Will be interesting to see the RAJAR figures when they come in, but yes, they absolutely need to separate for the TV hours.

That presumably makes it even less profitable though when you start having two separate services for three hours a day. 

I think it’s also probably the case that some of the few viewers TalkTV does have probably came from TalkRadio - if you separate them back out and they go back to listening instead of watching, there really will be nobody left to watch TalkTV!

The whole thing is a right old mess, I can see the whole project being dumped by the end of the year, with the TalkTV talent distributed back across the Murdoch-sphere in one way or another.